7 Most Unusual Amazon Dash Buttons

Condoms, candles, and colored pencils! Oh my!

Agoraphobics, rejoice! One year into its Dash program, Amazon has added almost 80 new products to its button-mashing delivery system, bringing the total to more than 100, the company announced today.

How many times have you or a loved one issued forth a weary sigh, overwhelmed by the difficulties involved in ordering something via your smartphone’s Amazon app? How many times? How many times have you considered wandering downstairs and across the street to the literally-named convenience store to buy a Slim Jim, only to then roll your eyes and think “I can’t even”?

All kidding aside, pushing a button is easy, so it’s no wonder Amazon is adding more products to Dash.

Here’s Daniel Rausch, Director of Amazon Dash, in a press release about the expansion: “We heard loud and clear from customers that they wanted more brands, more categories, and more products in the program. We’re excited to now offer over 100 Dash Buttons representing top-name brands across dozens of retail categories and thousands of product options.

He continues: “Customers are using Dash Buttons more than once a minute, helping ensure they never run out of their everyday essentials.”

Amazon rolled out its Dash buttons a year ago and the program is quite simple, really: Dash buttons are little, branded quasi-gizmos; when you press single button, Amazon understands that you’d like to order a coconut water or whatever, then gets to shipping you said coconut water. A day or two later, the product materializes on your doorstep.

Here are a few of the more curious things announced today that you can now order with a finger:

This is brilliant. There’s a real public health benefit to delivering condoms — the in-store purchase of which has been deemed “awkward” by countless Seinfeldian comedians — to people’s private residences.

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These are colored pencils. How often do you run out of colored pencils? How urgent is it that you replace those colored pencils? What are you going to do with those ten still-unsharpened pencils that are Vandyke Brown?

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